The Center on Family Demography and Public Policy
The Center on Family Demography and Public Policy focuses on family and household demography as related to larger social and economic processes, with a particular emphasis on child and family policy. Under this overall heading, our research portfolio includes interdisciplinary studies organized around four themes:
- the determinants and consequences of trends in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and childbearing;
- the determinants and consequences of changes in fatherhood, and patterns of child support and visitation by non-resident parents;
- the determinants and consequences of the use of child care;
- intergenerational transfers and relationships.
Our central objective is to advance knowledge on each of these themes by rigorously investigating population trends and processes and how they are connected to child and family policy. This includes attention both to how changing family and household demography alters the policies required to effectively meet the needs of America's children and families, as well as how public programs and policies affect family behavior and child and family wellbeing.
The Center hosts a weekly "brown bag" seminar with speakers from around the Columbia campus as well as from other universities and research centers. Seminars meet on Tuesdays from 1:00-2:15 (unless otherwise indicated), in room 1109 of the School of Social Work.
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| Spring 2008 Seminars |
| January 29 |
Devah Pager
Associate Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
"Race at Work: Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets." |
February 5
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Gillian Stevens
Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne and Visiting Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation
"Acquisition of English Among Immigrant Children in the U.S." |
February 12
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Cybele Raver
Associate Professor of Applied Psychology, New York University
"Preliminary Impacts of Classroom-based Intervention: Lessons Learned from the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP)." |
February 19
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John Ermisch
Professor of Economics, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex.
"Parent-child Interactions and Early Cognitive Development." |
February 26
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Richard Arum
Professor of Sociology and Education, New York University
"Law, Schooling and Youth Socialization." |
March 4
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Joseph Tobin
Nadine Mathis Basha Professor in Early Childhood Education, Arizona State University and Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation
"Immigrant Parents' and Preschool Practitioners' Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Care."
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March 11
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Saskia Sassen
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
"How the Liberal State Itself Produces a Democratic Deficit." |
March 18
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| March 25 |
Lenna Nepomnyaschy,
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University School of Social Work
"Comparing Race Disparities in Birth Outcomes between the South and the Rest of the US." |
| April 1 |
Lisa Bates
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
Title: TBA. |
| April 8 |
Vivian Louie
Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation
"We Have Been Alone: Immigrant Cultural Identity and Its Implications for Public Policy."
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| April 15 |
Michael Grossman
Distinguished Professor of Economics, CUNY Graduate Center
"Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experience in Taiwan."
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| April 22 |
Jennifer Hirsch
Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
"'You get tired of eating beans every day'. social, cultural, and economic aspects of married women's HIV risk in rural Mexico." |
| April 29 |
Marcy Carlson
Associate Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work
"Fathers' Involvement and Young Children's Behavior in Fragile Families." |
| May 6 |
Peter Messeri
Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
"The Social Ecology of Health of New York City Neighborhoods: Preliminary Findings for a Larger Study." |
